Reveling In Quotes

#1. A new political-entertainment class has moved into the noisy void once occupied by the sage pontiffs of yore, a class just as polarized as our partisan divide: one side holding up a fun-house mirror to folly, the other side reveling in its own warped reflection.

James Wolcott

#2. it," finished Susi. "It's almost worth it." Celeste met Susi's raccoon eyes. "Yes." The blandness of Susi's gaze said nothing at all except, Got it. She wasn't being kind and maternal, and she wasn't reveling in the delicious superiority

Liane Moriarty

#3. For a while I just sat there reveling in the pure pleasure of his touch. The scent of him was still in the air. I didn't want to breathe and risk dispelling the traces of him all around me.

Belinda Jones

#4. There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before you, relying only upon yourself, keeping a sharp eye on things, feeling the rock beneath your feet and fingertips.

Hermann Buhl

#5. I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obsessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is.

Ayelet Waldman

#6. Humility is the flip side of giving God all the glory. Humility means reveling in his grace, not our goodness.

John Piper

#7. I lied as a nightingale sings, ecstatically, self-obliviously; reveling in the new life-harmony which I was creating.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. I stay where I am for just one second longer, for one second reveling in the feeling of being held, touched with tenderness, even if it isn't real.

Cindy C. Bennett

#9. The transparency men have enjoyed for generations, about their ability to frankly work while also reveling in fatherhood, is still complicated for women. Which is not to say that anyone can have everything.

Mona Simpson

#10. At Montrose Beach Park in Chicago, I photographed a diverse group of city dwellers reveling in the warm, late-day sun.

Kevin J. Miyazaki

#11. ... I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely.

Stephenie Meyer

#12. What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.

Jinkx Monsoon

#13. I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don't think being sad is to be avoided. It's apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that's sadistic of me.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#14. I don't have children. I serve the world and I serve God by living as deep within my work as I can, reveling in the language of other times and putting it forth for the world.

James Ellroy

#15. I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

Neil Patrick Harris

#16. The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us.
(on Liverpool)

Steven Gerrard

#17. I wasn't thinking of marriage, just commitment.
I wasn't thinking of forever, just reveling in now.
We don't know yet how long we're meant to be-
there are so many obstacles down the road.
But there is also possibility; the ring marks the realm of possibility.

David Levithan

#18. I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.

John Green

#19. A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

George Gilder

#20. The boy was twelve, reveling in the strange dust-smelling murk of a New Orleans library, watching motes flash gold in a beam of sun. He loved the ceiling lights on chains and the table lamps with their green glass shades. The room was as beautiful as another world.

Marly Youmans

#21. I've always prided myself in not reveling in past accomplishments and focusing on future achievement, instead. That's been my career motto.

Ichiro Suzuki

#22. I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share ...

Mabel Osgood Wright

#23. Part of the blame lies with intellectuals who are unable or unwilling to convey their ideas in terms that will play down to the cafe. But anyone who sits in that cafe and dismisses complexity by reveling in their own simplicity is no less pretentious.

Michael Perry

#24. What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

Simon Mainwaring

#25. The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then, is to form a candid portrait of China exactly as China presented itself to me.

Tom Carter

#26. Do you think it's a coincidence that college is when many Americans do their most serious fucking and falling-down drinking and generally ecstatic DIonysian-type reveling? It's not.

David Foster Wallace

#27. How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots ...

Thomas Jefferson

#28. I know we shall have reveling tonight.

William Shakespeare

#29. Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.

Euripides

#30. A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

Franz Grillparzer